January 26, 2008

Citizen Journalism Video: Giving an Unbiased Story

Everyone has their beliefs and opinions. People feel very strongly about their beliefs. Sometimes it can be difficult to write a story as a citizen journalist without making it one sided. They do not want to hear that their beliefs are not correct. They do not wan to acknowledge that others can be right too, even if they do not agree with your point of view.

When writing a story you need to have an open mind. It is fine to give your beliefs and opinions, but you also have to give the other side of the story. If all you do is write an opinion piece without a place for readers to leave comments your writing career will be over before it has begun.   

To produce an unbiased piece you will need to put your beliefs and opinions behind you. Gather facts from both sides of the topics. Interview people who are for, and against your topic. This will make the reader feel like you are open to other people’s views. If you are only giving your opinions readers may not come back to view anymore of your work. If you want to develop a following you will need to learn how to write unbiased articles.

Citizen journalism is all about everyone having their chance to speak on what they feel is important. Let’s say you are doing a short film on your town wanting to combine their three elementary schools into one. A person writing a biased story would pick a side and write about why the other side was wrong. Writing an unbiased story means writing about the pros and cons of both sides. What benefits will there be. What problems could arise as a result of the new school. Then you can state which side you are on, and why you feel that way. Next ask your viewers to share how they feel about the subject. This is a perfect example of citizen journalism in the works.

Being unbiased can be hard when you feel very strongly about a subject. You just have to remember as a citizen journalist you have to put your views aside. Telling the story is more important than coming off as an arrogant know it all. Every person deserves to have a voice. Everyone will not agree, it is just human nature. Lets review the steps it takes to write and unbiased script for a citizen journalism-based video.

1. Gather facts and research from all sides of the topic.
2. Interview people who can give both the pros and the cons for your subject.
3. Give the viewers a chance to give their views on the topic.
4. If you give your opinion do not say it is the right one. Remember it is just an opinion.

It might take some practice to learn how to write an unbiased short film. Learning to keep your emotions out of the film can help. Keep writing, filming, directing and editing and you will learn to tell both sides of the story without injecting your opinions throughout. Unbiased film making will keep the viewers coming back.

Photo credit: videohaiku

January 20, 2008

Introducing John

There amongst the attendees who paid between $300 and $1700 to attend macworld; amongst all the talk of $1700 laptops that are little more than large PDA's; amongst the countless parties and meetups, sat John, a hobo from Hot Springs, Arkansas. The previous night I spent $40 to get into DEVO with several hundred other people. This day, I got a private concert for a couple of bucks in a hat and also got to spend some one-on-one time "backstage" with the artist.

January 17, 2008

OH NO! It's DEVO! - Live from Macworld 2008 - Uncontrollable Urge

OH NO! It's DEVO! - Live from Macworld 2008 - Uncontrollable Urge

Flickr Issues Threat to Cancel My Account

So, after using their service for almost five years, paying for the Pro account (which is paid up until 2010), and uploading over 13,000 images which have been viewed over 100,000 times I received an email from "Joe" at flickr customer support today threatening to delete my account because I violate their terms of service:

Hi giovanni@gallucci.net,

In joining Flickr, you agreed to abide by the Terms of
Service and Community Guidelines. Flickr accounts are
intended for individual use, for our members to share
photos that they've taken, not to sell stuff:

"Don't Use Flickr for Commercial Purposes Flickr is for
personal use only. If you sell products, services or
yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your
account. Any other commercial use of Flickr, Flickr
technologies (including APIs, Flickrmail, etc), or Flickr
accounts must be approved by Flickr."

http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

Please remove the URLs that link to your store/auction(s)
from underneath your photos and/or any sales verbiage or
“for sale” sets at your earliest convenience so that we
don't have to take further action on your account.

Regards,

Joe

So here's the problem...I don't have a "store or auction" link in the description of my images. I *do* put links to my websites and to my social networking profiles. Here is the description to the latest set of images I have on flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/theagencyblog/sets/72157603730923877/):


Devo - January, 15th 2008 at The Warfield - San Francisco From my trip with xTrain.com @ Macworld 2008. come by booth 416 to see speakers all three days during the exposition! follow me on twitter.com/giovanni and @ theagencyblog.com for up to the minute updates on the speakers, events and mac nerd celebrity sightings. 

these photos are licensed under a "creative commons" creative commons license. feel free to use these photos on the web. when you do, list the photo credit as

"giovanni gallucci | social media expert" and link the credit to www.gallucci.net.

any copyrights or trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Their presence in these photo does not imply or confer any right for reproduction.

connect to giovanni gallucci, new media consultant via your favorite social network:
facebook
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linkedin
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social media consultant | search engine optimization company | new media blog    

(cc) 2008 giovanni gallucci

So the question I have is: What am I selling? Anyone, anyone?

January 16, 2008

Video: Satisfaction - DEVO @ Macworld 2008!

Day two @ Macworld 2008. DEVO plays "satisfaction" at the Micorsoft-sponsored Macworld BLAST! Party.

January 15, 2008

First images - MacBook air

First images - MacBook air

First Video of Macbook Air

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day two with xTrain.com @ Macworld 2008. Seconds after Apple opened their booth at Macworld Expo 2008, I got this video of the brand new, wafer-thin Macbook Air laptop. come by booth 416 to see speakers all four days during the exposition! follow me on twitter.com/giovanni for up to the minute updates on the speakers, events and mac nerd celebrity sightings. 

this video is licensed under a "creative commons" creative commons license. feel free to use this video on the web. when you do, list the photo credit as

"giovanni gallucci | social media expert" and link the credit to www.TheAgencyBlog.com.

any copyrights or trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Their presence in these photo does not imply or confer any right for reproduction.


(cc) 2008 giovanni gallucci

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day one with xTrain.com @ Macworld 2008. come by booth 416 to see speakers all three days during the exposition! follow me on twitter.com/giovanni and @ theagencyblog.com for up to the minute updates on the speakers, events and mac nerd celebrity sightings. 

these photos are licensed under a "creative commons" creative commons license. feel free to use these photos on the web. when you do, list the photo credit as

"giovanni gallucci | social media expert" and link the credit to www.gallucci.net.

any copyrights or trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Their presence in these photo does not imply or confer any right for reproduction.

connect to giovanni gallucci, new media consultant via your favorite social network: facebook flickr linkedin twitter

social media consultant | search engine optimization company | new media blog    

(cc) 2008 giovanni gallucci

January 14, 2008

Macworld expo hall is humming!

Macworld expo hall is humming!

January 13, 2008

SF here we come

SF here we come
Next stop macworld!

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